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04/17/2024
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Join us on Monday 22nd April (Earth Day) at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver for a exciting concert from Axiom brass featuring 8 brand new pieces by composers from around the world. Each piece draws inspiration from mineral resources in each composer's home country.
Tickets are only $12.50 with all taxes and fees included - https://admitone.com/events/the-heavy-metal-suite-vancouver-9340133
Presented by the Future Minerals Initiative.
Hosted and narrated by CBC Ideas’ host, Nahlah Ayed.
Sponsored by: UBC Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences & The Canada Climate Law Initiative
04/17/2024
How art can help us talk about the green transition April 16, 2024 How art can help us talk about the green transition Elders, researchers and musicians are using art to get people talking about the challenges and opportunities of a transition to renewable energy. The Heavy Metal Suite concert premiers on Earth Day, featuring individual musical movem...
02/01/2024
New research published this week in Nature Communications from lead author Dr. Matthijs Smit, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, with PhD students Kira Musiyachenko and Jeroen Goumans.
The researchers used specific chemical tracers that are unaffected by geological alteration processes to identify the source of the rocks that made up most of the newly formed continental crust during the Archaean.
Trends in the compositions of these rocks indicate that they formed during slow burial, thickening and melting of precursor oceanic plateau crust.
This discovery provides a novel explanation of how continental crust may have originated without requiring an external driver, such as a meteorite impact - this discovery is a paradigm shift from the way geoscientists have understood the origins of continental crust and plate tectonics during the Archean era.
Researchers uncover source rocks of the first real continents January 31, 2024 Three types of granitoid rocks—tonalite, trondhjemite and granodiorite (TTG). Geoscientists have uncovered a missing link in the enigmatic story of how the continents developed—a revised origin story that doesn’t require the start of plate tectonics or any external factor to e...
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